Answer for the junior members of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, to the Memorial of Dr James Gregory / [John Bell].

  • Gregory James, 1753-1821.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Answer for the junior members of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, to the Memorial of Dr James Gregory / [John Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ * ] SECTION II. OF THE NATURE OF THAT CONNECTION WHICH ESSENTIALLY SUBSISTS BETWIXT HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE. “ He that is firft in his own caufe feemeth juft, but his neighbour Cometh and fearcheth him,” “ Is a contract more tolerable, more tenable, or lefs cruel, lefs unjufi:, lefs abfurd, which, without e.xpreffing in words that hateful condition, necefiarily implies it in fad.” From the voluminous memorial addrefled, not to the Ma- nagers of the Infirmary, but to the World, we have copied this fummary libel againft the Managers, the Surgeons, the inftitution itfelf, and all who have been concerned in the condud of it for fifty years. It is, on the grounds of this libel, that the former managers, nay the noble and libe- ral founder himfelf, are convided of treafon and perjury, of felling the privileges of this houfe to furgeons. They are accufed of an itching palm; they are convided of foiling their hands with a bribe! and “ a bribe is broad Englifii, for a yeward given to pervert the judgement * That the author fhould choofe to diftinguifh this expretlion as “ broad Englilh,” is rather lingular. It is indeed broad Englilh, but in the midft of a